What Rocks: The Week’s Best In the Geoblogosphere

Each Monday I pick five posts from the previous week in the geoscience blogosphere that caught my eye. I limit it to just five because I want those who are not already plugged into this community to get a manageable sampling of the awesome stuff out there.

Here is my list for June 27-July 3, 2011:

Jacquelyn Gill, a Ph.D. student in paleoecology whose Twitter feed I’ve been following for a while, has started a blog called The Contemplative Mammoth. Go check out her first post titled ‘I still play in the mud.’

The Wooster Geologists blog has two great posts discussing using an iPad for geological field work — Part 1 and 2. While I love my iPad, I don’t think it’s durable enough yet for field work in cold, rain, snow, heat, dust, wind, etc. These still work awesome.

Dave Petley of The Landslide Blog posts a video of a mini-tsunami making it’s way up a river near the south coast of England. The cause of this event is not entirely clear — the comment thread has some interesting ideas from Dave’s readers.

Finally, Evelyn Mervine from Georneys hosted the latest edition of The Accretionary Wedge geoscience blog carnival, which asked: what is your favorite geology word? The response to this has both quality and quantity, check it out.

* This digest is what catches my eye throughout the week. With scores of posts a week from geoscience blogs I’m sure to miss a lot. Don’t hesitate to let me know about other great posts in the geoblogosphere via Twitter, e-mail, or in the comment thread.